Hi Everyone, I think this is good. Esp. the one about Mexico City. Paul http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,43737,00.html Argentina Embraces the Penguin By Agustín d´Empaire 10:40 a.m. May 11, 2001 PDT BUENOS AIRES -- Salta is an Argentinean province located in the country's northwest, a desert area near the Andes. Not surprisingly, no penguins live there and most Salteños have never seen one before. However, the penguin named Tux is starting to draw a lot of attention, because a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Salta (UNSa) is distributing the Linux OS -- whose mascot is Tux -- throughout this region. -------------------------- http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45862,00.html Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools By Angel Gonzalez 02.00 a.m. Aug. 20, 2001 PDT Tux the penguin may become the preferred mascot of America's financially strained public education system –- for Linux represents a way to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for software. More than 98 percent of the schools in the U.S. have Internet access, according to a recent Department of Education report. But software costs can be prohibitive, especially now that Microsoft is stepping up efforts to stop license infringement in schools, forcing them to pay for every single copy of Windows they run. ---------------------------- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42456,00.html Mexico City Says Hola to Linux by Julia Scheeres 2:00 a.m. March 16, 2001 PST Mexico City's municipal government announced plans to switch city computers to the Linux operating system and to use the money it saves to fund social welfare programs. In an interview with the Mexican daily Reforma, the city's technical coordinator, José Barberán estimated that the municipality would save millions of dollars "that are spent, in my opinion, unnecessarily on software."
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